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Since Kael is so loyal a defender of youth vis-a-vis "the riot movie fad" it seems treacherous to fault her on the subject. Nevertheless, while she treats upper-class enervation as a given, when Antonioni's activist youths (Zabriskie Point) are zombies it means he is alienated. The assumption blights her reasoning. Especially since she insists the America is a better place to live than Antonioni makes it out to be - which puts her on the side of straight liberal anti-radical youth...
Flag. By late 1971 the organization had solidified enough to stage its own psychological warfare. On Dec. 7 they staged a church service in the "Hanoi Hilton." Their North Vietnamese captors called it "the riot." On that day the Fourth Combined P.O.W. Wing ordered a mass prayer service in defiance of camp regulations prohibiting meetings of more than 20 men. Ordered to stop, they prayed even louder. When the wing leaders were taken outside the cell block, those inside broke into The Star-Spangled Banner...
...assault on one policeman. But the jurors were hopelessly deadlocked on the attempted murder charge because they were unable to decide on the issue of intent. The sentence on the other charges could still run to 50 years, however. And Brown also faces trial on charges of inciting a riot in Maryland as well as a five-year sentence, which he is appealing, for carrying a carbine across state lines while under indictment on the Maryland charge...
...five of the city's 60 lycées were shut down, some 80,000 teen-age boys and girls defied a government ban to gather on the Left Bank for a protest march that was to end up at the Defense Ministry. Squads of tough riot police made sure that the demonstrators never got anywhere near their objective, but there were some sharp skirmishes that left bloodied heads and at least a whiff of the tear gas that had drifted in clouds over the city five years earlier...
Matthews residents also instigated a massive Yard riot this Fall and sponsored a "jockathon." In the "jockathon" a resident ran around the Yard wearing only an athletic supporter to win a case of beer...